Re: Pasta question?

Dee wrote on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:49:15 -0400:


DD> "Sky" <skyhooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
DD> news:46FFDC7B.586B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
??>> I don't often make pasta - I tend cook rice more often. I
??>> used to add a bit of oil or butter to the boiling salted
??>> water for pastas, but I've since learned that's not
??>> necessarily a good thing. Reason is, the oil or butter
??>> slicks up (coats) the pasta, and this makes it more
??>> difficult for the sauce to stick/adhere to the pasta.
??>> This makes sense to me. (IIRC) I learned this "don't use
??>> oil in the water to cook pasta" trick from a FTV show with
??>> Mario Batalli (sp?) and/or Giada, maybe on PBS with Lidia
??>> Bastianich too?
??>>
??>> Sky

DD> I'm with you on this, Sky. I listen to these guys; they
DD> make sense to me.

We used to go the oil-on-top route since it was supposed to prevent the spaghetti from sticking together but many years ago, during a cut-the-grease campaign, we stopped doing it and did not notice any difference in sticking. I've not used oil since.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

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